The idea of emotional stillness as a game you can 'win' really hit home for me.
I definitely recognise that quiet habit of trying to stay at 'baseline.' Your description of the cost, especially the thinning out of memories, is so well observed.
I really appreciated the ending and the choice to be 'messy' and present instead.
Wow. The need for this arises from trauma, doesn’t it? So familiar.
I called it disappearing. I can still do it. Sometimes I need to.
Yeah, same game. Still playing sometimes.
Oh my Bent, I feel this one so deeply. 😥
As a friend: I hate that.
As a writer: Good it did what it was supposed too.
The idea of emotional stillness as a game you can 'win' really hit home for me.
I definitely recognise that quiet habit of trying to stay at 'baseline.' Your description of the cost, especially the thinning out of memories, is so well observed.
I really appreciated the ending and the choice to be 'messy' and present instead.
It’s a very human piece of writing.
Thanks a lot. I am on this journey of exploring every nook and cranny of who I am. The real me.
Bradley prompts make it easy to wrap those truths in fiction.
I played my whole childhood chilling to see it written
This was so great 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Oh. Can relate to this.
Beautiful work, and such a haunting take on the prompt.
ok so, wow, i can identify with this on a very, very personal level. ✨🦋
I'm always so amazed by the way your mind works. This was good. Unique. It made me want to tell people that they don't always have to be Still.
I may have played this game when I was younger. Now I think I play a different version of the game. ✨
There were many time I played it over the last two years of caring for Tracy’s mom.
Sometimes it is the only way to get through.